Lost…
She had lost?
Even after she crossed the finish line, Ti Yusheng still didn’t dare believe this reality.
It wasn’t just her.
The entire spectator stands were dead silent.
Although it wasn’t that no one had thought of the possibility of Zhong Siji winning, no one had ever thought he would win this easily.
Many people hadn’t even clearly seen how Zhong Siji had suddenly overtaken Ti Yusheng.
In the stands, Xu Runhui lightly elbowed Yan Yanyan, whose mouth was hanging wide open.
“I told you so.”
Although Xu Runhui had been certain Zhong Siji would win before the match started, she actually hadn’t expected him to win this effortlessly either.
But that didn’t stop her from showing off a little in front of Yan Yanyan, giving her the illusion that her understanding of Classmate Siji far exceeded hers.
Yan Yanyan was stunned for a good while before she said with some difficulty, “You already knew this?”
Xu Runhui nodded proudly. “Of course. I understand Classmate Siji even more than you imagine, you know? What, does Classmate Yan Yan have some insight?”
“No. I just suddenly felt that Classmate Siji could beat Classmate Runhui until she called him daddy. Just a sudden thought with no basis. It’s a bit rude, but please don’t mind, Classmate Runhui.”
Looking at Xu Runhui’s smug appearance, Yan Yanyan felt a little annoyed and just casually took a jab at her.
She didn’t expect it to deal any damage to this thick-skinned woman who could pick food off a boy’s chopsticks.
But what she hadn’t expected was that after hearing it, Xu Runhui’s face actually flushed red at flying speed.
“You… what are you talking about! How could I possibly get beaten by Classmate Siji until I called him daddy!”
Hey hey hey, this reaction…
Don’t tell me?
Yan Yanyan’s words instantly threw Xu Runhui into a panic.
Although the person who had been beaten by Classmate Siji wasn’t her, the one who had called him daddy really was her!
The only ones present at the time had been herself and Classmate Siji.
Don’t tell me Classmate Siji he…
No!
Impossible!
Classmate Siji wouldn’t do something like that…
Which means this might just be a casual joke from this scheming girl?
Then haven’t I just…
Xu Runhui desperately forced herself to calm down and said in as even a tone as possible, “Classmate Yan Yan really knows how to joke.”
Unfortunately it was already too late. “Classmate Runhui.”
Yan Yanyan’s eyes were full of pity and compassion.
“I didn’t expect you could go this far. I really underestimated you.”
Xu Runhui opened her mouth, didn’t argue any further, only buried her face in her palms and slowly squatted down.
On the other side the boys were excitedly hugging together.
In this moment, whether they liked him or hated him, they were all cheering the same name at the same time. “Siji! Siji! Siji! Siji!”
And the girls were like this: “Enough, sisters, enough. Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go (meaning to the bathroom). Hang in there, Ti Yusheng. Win it back next round, win it back next round. Everyone rest early too (meaning go back to the classroom)… This Ti Yusheng is really her dad’s trash! Really her dad’s trash today! Too trash, can’t even outrun a boy in a hundred meters! Like a maggot!”
With one side rising and the other falling, what came from the stands was all support for Zhong Siji and mockery of Ti Yusheng.
Hearing some of the excessive abuse, Zhong Siji frowned and looked toward Ti Yusheng with some worry.
But the expected loss and sadness did not appear in her eyes.
What he saw in Ti Yusheng’s eyes was instead a passion like fire that seemed ready to burn into the real world.
Zhong Siji smiled self-deprecatingly.
Why had he gotten sentimental instead?
There was no particular expression on Chen Guoguo’s face at this moment.
She only silently marked one point for Zhong Siji on the scoreboard.
“Teacher, what are we competing in next?”
Ti Yusheng adjusted her breathing and asked Chen Guoguo with some excitement.
“Number of jump-rope skips in one minute.” Chen Guoguo said without joy or sorrow.
“Can we change it to a five-kilometer long run?”
The moment Ti Yusheng said this, it immediately drew protests from the stands, especially the boys. “Can’t win so you play dirty tricks! Ti Yusheng, do you even count as a woman?”
That was only natural.
The jump-rope event had always been one where boys held the advantage in traditional thinking.
In their view, Ti Yusheng was clearly stalling because Zhong Siji was about to take the match cleanly two to zero.
Although Zhong Siji’s explosive power was strong, long-distance running depended on endurance.
Over an extended match time, girls were definitely more favored.
What they hadn’t expected, though, was that there were opposing voices on the girls’ side as well.
“No, if we don’t jump rope, who’s going to make up for that tiny peek of the hem lifting a little when she jumps? Ti Yusheng, don’t be too selfish! You eat the meat and don’t even leave a sip of soup for your sisters!”
The boys immediately turned their spears toward this girl.
“Can you girls have something else in your heads? So cringe!”
The girls refused to back down.
“Don’t you also discuss male stars’ bodies every day! What face do you have to say that about us?”
The boys and girls instantly started arguing in a heap.
Chen Guoguo paid no attention at all to the noise in the stands.
She only said mildly to Ti Yusheng, “You may. But you have to get Siji’s agreement.”
Ti Yusheng didn’t speak.
She only looked toward Zhong Siji.
Zhong Siji should have refused.
At least that was how it should have been.
“Come at me with everything you’ve got!”
That desire to compete to his heart’s content, that burning gaze proportional to the craving, was gradually stirring Zhong Siji’s heart.
After all, since the world had changed he had not unrestrainedly released himself for a long time.
“Just this once.”
“Thank you.”
At this moment there were no impurities left in Ti Yusheng’s eyes.
What remained was only pure competitive desire.
“No need to thank me. I just want to try… how fast I can run now.”
“Then both of you return to the track. Five kilometers is a total of twelve and a half laps. You don’t need to deliberately count the laps. Each time you reach the finish I will mark your respective laps on this board. When it’s time for the final half-lap sprint, I will reset the finish line in advance.” Chen Guoguo explained the rules to the two of them. “But this kind of long run easily opens up a gap. With just you two, maybe there won’t even be a need to set that finish line.”
“Did you hear that? If you and I open up a gap, teacher won’t need to reset the finish line. Maybe I should leave you far behind and save teacher a little trouble.”
The moment he stepped back onto the track, Zhong Siji seemed to suddenly become a different person and started talking trash at Ti Yusheng.
There was no malice.
It was purely teasing.
This had originally been one of the base colors of his personality.
It was just that after the world changed he had suppressed this side to avoid trouble.
But the atmosphere had already reached this point.
Saying a little of this wasn’t too much, right?
Ti Yusheng glanced at Zhong Siji a little unexpectedly.
Although it was a bit arrogant, coming out of that face it instead had an indescribable charm…
Ngh, she seemed a little excited.
She hurriedly coughed twice as if to cover it. “Cough, cough. Talk is cheap. We’ll see the real thing on the field!”
“Ready! Start!”
The moment the words fell, the two of them shot off the starting line like arrows leaving the string.